Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

Back to school, to prove to Dad that I'm not a fool.

I have always had school sickness, as others have seasickness. I cried when it was time to go back to school long after I was old enough to be ashamed of such behavior.

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didn't want to go to private school.

The first day back to school, you never want to wear your best outfit. You're setting the bar too high for yourself! Then the rest of the school year, you'll feel so much pressure! Wear something cute, but save your best outfit for a day when no one expects it.

My worst nightmare when I was in school was that I would get into trouble. I never got in trouble. I was a good student.

It's official: The biggest back-to-school bullies are anxiety, worry and fear.

Having kids in school feels stressful for me.

Finding out whether I had made the grades for my first choice university course or whether I needed to rethink my future was terrifying.

In middle school and high school, I had straight A's, and I graduated at the top of my year. On the flip side of that, I struggled with very severe performance anxiety.

The purpose of school should be to prepare kids for the rest of their lives, but too often what kids need to be prepared for is surviving the school day itself.

I went to school for one year. It was the best experience but the worst experience. The best experience because I was, like, 'Oh, now I know why kids are so depressed.' But it was the worst experience because I was depressed.

It reminded me of a meat grinder. From when I was a kid. Going to school it felt like you were in a meat grinder. It chews you up and pours out this mess that can't function

I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.

I forgot how much I loved going to class, actually. But I also forgot what having school homework feels like: stressful!

There is actually a huge suicide problem in Palo Alto schools, so obviously not all is well in paradise. High expectations, and the pressure to achieve in a highly competitive world are too much for a lot of very promising young people. There have been something like ten youth suicides in Palo Alto in the past ten years. They usually step in front of the train that runs by the high school.

School used to be an escape. Now it's just another place with too much pressure, too much confrontation, & so not enough joy.

The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.

The school system is constructed to praise you if you get high grades. And if you get straight A's, you're the one that everyone puts forward, and they prognosticate that the straight-A person is the one most likely to succeed, because that's the way the school system is constructed and conceived.

I always get a little anxious like the first day of school when we've had our hiatus and we're coming back, because I think I'm not as insane as I was when we started shooting. I have that anxiety before we start shooting.

I will never be as busy as I was in high school and college.

I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.

How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.

None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success.

When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.